Take a trip to the Resort

Today, we’re proud to announce the latest addition to the WooThemes theme catalog. With a layout that has proven itself time and again online, as well as an array of helpful and informative features… ladies and gentlemen, meet Resort.

Meet Resort

In all business, brick-and-mortar or otherwise, the most important aspects are a keen idea and customers to purchase it. The link between these two is contact.

Resort includes several features to help your visitors to contact you easily and quickly using a variety of contact methods, directly available on the homepage (you can even display your telephone number directly in the header area). Designed by Chris Rowe, Resort takes a clean and well-structured approach to displaying your content and helping your visitors and potential customers to learn more about you and your business. With the store functionality powered by WooCommerce, the entire WooCommerce extensions library is also at your disposal to take your online store to the next level.

Galleries, post-formatted

Resort includes native support for the “gallery” post format, bundled into WordPress. Simply create your blog post, set the “gallery” post format, upload your images (set one as the featured image for the gallery “cover image”) and add a “gallery” shortcode into your content. Your images galleries will then display neatly on the homepage, as well as in line with your other blog posts.

Photo galleries courtesy of the gallery post format

Not just for business

While Resort is primarily a business-focussed theme, the design can be used for anything from an online store to your own personal branded nameplate website. With styling support for our Features and Testimonials plugins, as well as a “Blog” and a “Business” page template, your own design is just a few small tweaks away in the “Theme Options” section.

Create quick and simple alternate styles

Customising your copy of “Resort” is important to us. With this in mind, no expense has been spared to ensure ease of use and customisation of the theme with a few clicks and your custom eye-catching imagery. Alternate colour styles have also been included, to quickly provide a unique feel on your website. These alternate styles showcase it’s flexibility with each CSS file being only a few lines of extra styling.

The phone number doesn’t seem to be Click To Call, can this be changed? This is a must have for someone viewing on a smartphone. Considering this theme is responsive for mobiles, it really is a no brainer! Hope this can be done within the control panel, if not a simple CSS fix perhaps?

Almost all WooThemes have the logo/menu area at the top, with the logo on the left and the menu on the right. And almost everything is roundish and a bit “fat”. Not so much with a really slim, crisp, ultra modern feel. This is very much a style thing, and most theme designers have their style. Nowadays it’s pretty easy to spot a stock WooThemes theme from afar (The One Pager is a nice departure). Yes, I can change things up like I have for clients, but it’s always nice when you don’t have to double the budget to do a ton of CSS-ifying. 🙂

Speaking of a Portfolio, the one in Canvas could be vastly improved by removing the text underneath the image in the Portfolio grid. Instead of the magnifying glass on hover, show the title. And allow the featured image that shows up in the grid NOT be shown on the individual portfolio item. And don’t hide several images attached to a portfolio item, giving no clue to a visitor how many images are in the item. I’ve had to ditch Canvas in favor of another theme shop because of the lack of portfolio flexibility. Another great idea that many Themeforest portfolio themes have is dynamic repositioning/show/hide/ of the portfolio grid items upon selection of the portfolio group/gallery. Some do it better than others. Simple movement is better than overly fancy effects.

I know most theme shops use a demo switcher, but I always get rid of it immediately. Since it causes problems, interferes with the look of the theme, and is generally a bit of an annoyance, why not just dynamite it? 🙂

WooThemes used to put out some of the best WordPress themes, by far. Now they just release themes that look like themes you can get anywhere else. Hopefully the refocusing you guys are doing will allow you to be more creative and come up with some truly unique themes in the future.

This is perfect timing! I’ve been searching through my various developer packages for a week looking for the perfect theme for a client, testing and trashing one after another, and I think this is THE one I’ve needed! Thank you!

Looks great!
I love the phone number idea!
I’m wondering why you went back to the non-descript menu logo in the responsive phone view?
Having a bar with the word “Navigation” show instead is so much more user-friendly

Love the theme. Perfect for a project I just started! I set up a quick sample site for a client and it appears that with Woo Slider enabled the homepage slider disappears after browsing to the shop and back again! Using Chrome. Doesn’t appear to happen in other browsers. Might be a minor bug needs fixing. Or could be me…

Just downloaded the theme. This is just what I have been looking for! Love the flexibility that you have built in and having a responsive theme. It’s great that you can move things around in your new themes and I just LOVE the features idea – allows me to connect a feature to a page, a post or another website – simple but awesome.

Really pleased you have brought back sliders and having a widgetised sidebar.

Actually, that bug I thought I solved a few posts back re the slider disappearing after browsing away from the homepage and back again isn’t actually resolved. Happening in all browsers whether wooslider is enabled or not. Only way to resolve it is to re-save all the slides for the chosen slide group and refresh the homepage.

Are the sliders used by woothemes EVER going to support oEmbed in the video inputs boxes?

This is so frustrating that I can easily add a video url anywhere in my site and it just plain works, EXCEPT for the sliders.

Why would you make me ask my clients to leave their website to go and get the embed code from another website, just to add video to a slider, when all they have to do is add a url virtually anywhere else in the theme and it just works….

Now seems the perfect time to solve this problem as WordPress 3.6 focuses so much on media and making it easier to use. Heck, even the new video post-format input box supports oEmbed, so the LAST PROBLEM AREA for this is still the woothemes sliders…

I request this in the support ticket area and I get the new Woo standard answer…. beyond the scope of support, go figure….